Parth Shah
Verified Expert in Engineering
Front-end Developer
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Toptal member since September 27, 2021
Parth has 11+ years of experience with in-depth knowledge and a strong passion for front-end tech. From 2017 to 2020, he co-founded his startup, studysid.com, acting as the CTO, where he raised USD 500,000 and learned a lot—primarily about ownership and organization. Since then, he has been working with multiple startups worldwide, namely Mindtickle, Bread Payments, Cast App, Column, and Crstl.
Portfolio
Experience
- Front-end - 9 years
- React - 8 years
- TypeScript - 4 years
- React Apollo - 4 years
- Node.js - 4 years
- GraphQL - 4 years
- Next.js - 4 years
- Backbone.js - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Slack, Zoom, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Google Chrome, Postman, Terminal, GitHub
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is pursue my dream of entrepreneurship, founding Studysid and raising 500,000 USD in the process.
Work Experience
Senior Full-stack Developer
Haystack Insights Inc.
- Scaled an MVP into a sales-ready product within eight months, releasing new features daily.
- Optimized front-end performance, fixed layout shifts and rendered blocking JavaScript, and enhanced user experience by optimizing specific JavaScript code.
- Implemented unit test cases to achieve a 70% code coverage.
Front-end Lead
Holocene GmbH
- Started the project from scratch. Worked with the Next.js boilerplate. Translated Figma to Code to release the MVP. Used best practices and was an excellent level of code. Integrated Nylas for emails and PDFTron as a document viewer.
- Assisted business and design to scope out work, create a tech roadmap, and allocate timelines for the same. Got into multiple features and worked on optimizing the front end and back end to improve UX.
- Launched successfully within four weeks as we planned, and we shipped features at great speed. Onboarded initial customers who are currently using the application.
Senior Front-end Developer | Team Lead
GiftCash
- Collaborated on bulk buy and sell form using a three-page stepper (a React Hook Form), Yup validation, Trulioo integration for identity verification, SignNow integration for W-9 online signing, Next.js, Node.js, and Redux.
- Refactored the entire back end which was initially on AWS Lambdas and Prisma. To start using GraphQL and Sequelize, we used Refine.dev to handle all CRUD operations on the Admin side and abstracted it very well.
- Worked with their primary client to get the Purchaser app up and running in less than four weeks. We closed 10k transactions per day.
Front-end Vue Developer | Full-stack Developer
Virtual Doctor and Medicines, S.L.
- Developed an application that would make a health calendar in terms of food and exercise calendar for the user after taking in the necessary health and medical information along with allergens and diet preferences.
- Built this application that was based on Vue. Built out the front end and integrated all the back-end APIs.
- Led a team of three front-end developers, understanding the exact product requirements and translating them into high-quality code.
Software Development Engineer II
MindTickle
- Used some of the latest tech front-end techs, along with GraphQL client and server writing queries and mutations, integrating those with microservices deployed on a Kubernetes cluster.
- Worked on integrating the Call AI instance with the rest of the application.
- Contributed to several POCs, comparing speech to text and text translation results.
Co-founder and CTO
Studysid.com
- Acted as an architect and product manager, visualizing the user flows, talking to design to create a prototype, understanding tech feasibility, and then creating a tech roadmap for the engineering team to follow.
- Taught front-end engineering to 50+ students as a part of Studysid's Teaching initiative.
- Raised $500,000 as pre-seed funding and worked at this platform for four years.
Software Developer
Housing.com
- Migrated the entire application from Backbone.js to React when React became popular.
- Turned the mobile site into a React PWA, one of the first PWA applications in India at that scale.
- Managed a team of five developers to take ownership of certain features like home load, assist, and Falcom.
Software Developer
Zeus Systems Pvt
- Developed a solid inclination towards the front end as a fresher, also working on Backbone.js projects.
- Worked on building common components that the entire company could use—a privilege not everyone gets there.
- Got a job offer from one of the dream companies of three times my current CTC in just 11 months.
Experience
Coaching Class Aggregator
For this project, I worked on user flows, designs, tech architecture, and the development lifecycle.
Housing.com
https://www.housing.comGetting a first-hand experience on React, we made a Mobile Lite application on React, also turning it into a PWA. From then I assisted in multiple projects like Assist made in Angular 4 and the Housing Falcon project.
Later, I was responsible for training freshers on the front-end stack, and I also led a team of six developers.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering - Mumbai, India
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Backbone.js, React, REST APIs, Node.js, React Router, Vue, Material 2
Tools
GitHub, React Apollo, Figma, Retool
Languages
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, GraphQL, TypeScript, PHP, SQL
Paradigms
Web UX Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), CRUD
Frameworks
Redux, Material UI, Next.js, Tailwind CSS
Other
Front-end, Front-end Development, APIs, Web UX, API Integration, Front-end Architecture, Front-end Design, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Team Leadership, User Interface (UI), Apollo Server, Full-stack
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